2 Samuel 15:20
Good News Translation
You have lived here only a short time, so why should I make you wander around with me? I don't even know where I'm going. Go back and take all your people with you--and may the LORD be kind and faithful to you."

New Revised Standard Version
You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, while I go wherever I can? Go back, and take your kinsfolk with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”

Contemporary English Version
You haven't been with me very long, so why should you have to follow me, when I don't even know where I'm going? Take your soldiers and go back. I pray that the Lord will be kind and faithful to you."

New American Bible
You came only yesterday, and today shall I have you wander off with us wherever I have to go? Return and take your brothers with you, and may the LORD show you kindness and fidelity.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

go up and down [heb] wander in going

Psalm 56:8 I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Psalm 59:15 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Amos 8:12 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: . . .

seeing

1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.

mercy

2 Samuel 2:6 And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.

Psalm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 57:3 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 61:7 He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Proverbs 14:22 They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: . . .

Context
David Flees Jerusalem
19And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us: return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come out of thy own place. 20Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.21And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O king, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.

2 Samuel 2:6
And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.

Proverbs 3:3
And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

2 Samuel 15:19
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